erent a collection of Winnipeg folklore. Her quirkiness and charm come through in the work she’s created and helped exhibit in the city after moving here three and a half years ago. Her first trip to Canada was for an art residency in Toronto. She returned home to the U.K. after her visa expired and organized a festival of Toronto art in Bristol. While looking for a job in Canada, the posting for a job aceart came up in a city she’d never heard of and came to love. “I’m very excited by the art in Winnipeg,” Godfrey says . “I want to make the gallery a place where people want to come out and take a risk. Because ace is free – as all artist centres are – people can afford to take that risk. I love seeing people’s work and love being able to help disseminate it. I love people’s imaginations and want people to love ace’s imagination.” Though her most recent work, “Dear Peggy”, has a very minimal, poetic feel – Godfrey wanted a slightly different aesthetic for the PegGay-licious parties. “My nature is not squeaky clean. PegGay-licious is just trashy enough for me without being depraved,” says Godfrey. When asked what her definition of depraved, Godfrey smiles, a little mischievously. “There was one event I was playing music at. People ended up fucking in adjacent rooms. There were people in the bathroom fucking. I like to think it was my set that did it.” For details on the venue for of the event, please check the Facebook page at http://www. facebook.com/events/296637480405791/. You can view Lauren Hortie’s work at http://www. laurenhortie.com/ and Andrew Li at http:// www.facebook.com/man.chyna
There was one event I was playing
music at, People ended up f*cking in adjacent rooms.
– Katrina Caudle is a Winnipeg-based freelance writer
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